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Report Card Codes
Report Cards Report Writer
Report Card Codes
The following codes are specific to Report Cards Report Writer. They are the newest
codes used to create course tables and other boxes and also to format text properly. For
an explanation of universal codes used in all Report Writers in Administrator’s Plus, see
the end of this chapter.
Table Codes For Skills and Non Skills-Based Report Cards
Note that although box codes are designed to align text within parameters defined in the
body of the report, in most cases, you can choose not to print vertical or horizontal lines
around the text by simply setting the border width to “0”. The exceptions to this are the
course boxes for both skills and non-skills courses. To print a non skills-based report
card without boxes around the courses, choose one of the default reports for wide or
narrow report cards. See “The Pre-defined Reports” on page 7-84.)
Course Table Box
Used to print courses in a table that looks similar to default report cards #18 and #20,
this box is designed to print courses not associated with skills. If you have both skills
and non-skills courses, you must use the Advanced Specifications Box code to produce
a separate course box with skills (more than one Table Box can be used within a report).
Code
~CourseTableSpecStart = #~
PrintDescription = ‘N’ or ‘Y’
BoxWidth = Auto or #.##
Other “Width” codes = #.##
Subject; Course #; Level; Section;
Credit; Teacher; Comment
MinGradingColumnWidth = #.##
Description
Denotes the start of the course table specification.
# is the table number, used to distinguish multiple
boxes in a report.
Determines whether the course description will
print in place of the course name. If this code is set
to ‘Y’, courses that do not have a long description
will print the standard course name.
Width of the entire course table. Columns that will
not fit in this width will be truncated. Use Auto to
have the box width calculate automatically based
on the width of the page and the columns printed.
Enter a number in inches. If you choose to use the
AUTOCALC option, the settings here will be
ignored, and the program will calculate an optimal
width based on how many columns are needed
and how much text is entered in each column.
Minimum width of columns containing grades.
Column width will increase if needed to
accommodate grades, but it will not be lower than
this number.
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